Re: NiceHash Miner - easy-to-use best-profit multi-device cryptocurrency miner
The purpose of the benchmark is to find out what hashrate your hardware is capable of with each algorithm in order for the auto profit switching feature to function. Without benchmarking the hardware that feature can't function since it has no data to base it's calculations off of.
Yeah, but if I have 8 identical cards, NH insists in running the benchmark on each of the individually. I wonder why there is no option to tell it to only run the benchmark in the 1st card. I wonder if it could have anything to do with the fact that when you benchmark, all the hash goes to an internal NH address and not the one you have defined in the client...It doesn't matter if you have identical cards, they will not all have the exact same hashrate by default. Due to asic quality, silicone lottery, cooling (your middle GPUs tend to run hotter) etc... the hashrate will be different on some of them.
not enough to make a difference..
you can however run the bench on one card, go into the settings and set the speed manually for each card.
Strongly agree on this. When I used Nicehash, this benchmark of same cards was really a pain. With new version and new algos added I'm guessing it could take up to 2 hours for a rig with 8 cards. Do you think everybody has 2 hours to stand and look how Nicehash is benchmarking cards?
On NiceHash Miner Legacy! On benchmark window on the list just tick one box (gpu #3) do the benchmark, go to the #1 gpu click the right button on top of the gpu and choose to copy from #3 do this to other gpus, it works perfectly. Do not recommend making the reference benchmark with GPUs # 1 and # 2